AoS has returned from its’ brief hiatus. And?
And we’re right back at where we have started the S5 – it is
a good, solid season; the interactions between Fitz and Simmons are wonderful…albeit
nothing like what should’ve happened between them after the first four seasons,
but perhaps now things will start to get back to normal.
Kasius’ brother has appeared on the scene: he is a bigger
douche than Kasius himself, and… Kasius has father issues on top of everything…
Wait. Didn’t we go through this before?
Yes. Aside from the entire Grant Ward & John Garret
situation back in S1, there was the entire issue between Leo Fitz and the
virtual copy of his father in the framework of S4. Now, perhaps, Leo will use
his newfound knowledge to get the better of Kasius, who might not be so bad… Wait.
Didn't we go through this before?
Oh yes we did – with Grant Ward and agent 33/Kara Palamas in
S1 and S2. The result backfired on AoS very badly, the S4’s framework solution
was imperfect because it wasn’t real even by the show’s standards, (the titular
heroes ended up fighting a VR Hydra in a VR world…I mean, Hydra the agency, not
the mythical monster), so there’s that. Now Hydra is gone again…only not so
much; ‘Rewind’ might’ve shown it coming back; something is rotten in the U.S.
military…and it could’ve been a much better plot, properly fleshed out, than
what we got with the Kree – something akin to the Roman Empire depicted in ‘Gladiator’
the movie. Remember? “Are you not entertained?” Yes. That Rome.
…True, MCU has already done something like that with ‘Thor:
Ragnarok’ movie: while Thor’s home world, Asgard, is that of the Norse, when
Thor (& Loki) meet the Hulk (& Valkyrie) on Sakaar, we get a more Roman
Empire sort of world, we get a more austere North meeting a more decadent
South. Lovely. George Martin is so
impressed – where did we get this
sort of thing before?
Now, 74 years into the future the Asgardians apparently are
not around, and the Kree have enslaved the remainder of Earth’s people; (as
GotG movies show, there are humans living on other planets as well, so what
gives? Does no one care about Earth anymore? Is that the Republicans’ fault? Do
tell!), and the audiences aren’t too impressed: somehow, after the first 4
seasons, AoS just isn’t the same anymore; there are too many ups and downs…and
mostly downs, and now we’re going for sympathetic villains again. The Kree have
been such good villains so far precisely because they are not sympathetic; but
now we got Kasius, Synera – his girl Friday, and…Enoch.
The truth isn’t out there anymore; (X-Files S11 is back, and
it is worth taking a look or two); Enoch himself is a Kree – or is he? How
exactly did he manage to come to AoS’ present, (74 years before the current
time frame); and what is his endgame? As we have seen, he does not care about
other Kree either, though that might really be a Kree thing: none of the Kree appear
to care about each other, and the higher-ranking ones (mainly Kasius and his
family, but still), also appear to look more emo than the vampires of the
Twilight™
franchise, and that is just sad.
In other news, while we are talking about villains, Gryll is
dead. We got a new character, Flint, who is a young InHuman, and is just the
right age and looks to pass as Mack and Yo-Yo’s teenage son. Wait. Didn’t Mack
was shown in S3 to have a younger brother who could fill this sort of a role in
the show? Yes, but apparently that was a one-episode role, so he is gone, and
we got Flint. Maybe he will stick around, now that Gryll is dead, and so’s the
helpful telepath that we met in the previous episodes. Flint himself is an
InHuman, just a telekinetic, not a telepathic one. Yay.
…And yes, this is a problem that AoS seems to be suffering
in S5: none of the new characters are very memorable, or perhaps after the
massive kill-offs of characters from S2 onwards the fans just do not want to
invest in them, and so interest in AoS lags. Oh well, not all of the decisions
can be winners, though ‘Rewind’ did bring the public’s interest back up,
apparently. Guess we will have to wait and see where ‘Fun’ will take us from
there.
That is it for now, see you all soon!
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